I want to include an indented, underlined, upper- and lowercase paragraph heading ending with a period in my document instead of using \subsubsection. Anyone who knows how I can define the command for this in LaTeX?

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doncherryAug 15 '12 at 22:47

I just noted that when I include the 'explicit' in titlesec package the section/subsection disappears and I end up with something like this 1 or 1.1 instead of '1 A Section' or '1.1 A Subsection'
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ThembiAug 16 '12 at 6:36

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@Thembi when the explicit option is used you need to use explicitly pass the title as #1 in the last mandatory argument, so, for example, instead of just saying \titleformat{\section} {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{} you need to use \titleformat{\section} {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{#1}. If you experience any problems, please add to your question a minimal, complete example illustrating your problems.
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Gonzalo MedinaAug 16 '12 at 11:58